Bren Smith is an aquaculture professional and former commercial fisherman, best known for pioneering Regenerative Ocean Farming via co-founding the non-profit GreenWave.
Born in Maddox Cove, Newfoundland, Canada, Smith left school aged 14 to become a commercial fisherman, plying his trade in the Grand Banks and the Bering Sea.
[4] In 2015, Smith won the Buckminster Fuller Challenge prize for the GreenWave design.
[7] In 2019, his semi-autobiographical work Eat Like A Fish, published by Penguin Random House, won a James Beard Foundation Book Award.
[8] Eat Like A Fish - My adventures as a fisherman turned restorative ocean farmer, 2019, Vintage Books[4]